In this sixth issue of eGorgias, the free monthly newsletter of Gorgias Press, you'll find the newest releases as well as forthcoming books. Since March was a busy conference month, we include a conference report. The April Gorgias Enthusiast is Corey Brennan, associate proffesor and the department chair of Classics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ. Scroll below to find out just how enthusiastic he is about Gorgias Press.

What's new on www.gorgiaspress.com? Now registered Gorgias customers can share their views on titles by rating them. Scroll below to learn how. Finally, Moser's Teacher of Holiness just recieved a rave review in the Journal of Early Christian Studies. In honor of our author's achievement, we are offering this title at a 30% discount. As always, all special sales are final and we welcome your comments and suggestions.

Greek Tradition and Latin Influence in the Work of George Scholarios By Christopher Livanos
This book attempts to understand the miscommunications between Greeks and westerners in the fifteenth century by concentrating on the work of George Gennadios Scholarios who under the name of Gennadios II became the first Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church during Ottoman Rule.
ISBN 1-59333-344-7, Hardback, $75

Hearing God's Call and Following Jesus By Paul S Russell
The aim of this book is to show readers how they can approach passages and teachings in Scripture that might seem very foreign to them in a practical way that will bring the passages to life, and help them make their lives today better examples of Christian discipleship.
ISBN 1-59333-318-8, Paperback, $14.9

Transmission and Reception: New Testament Text-Critical and Exegetical Studies By Jeff Childers
Exploring various topics pertaining to the transmission and reception of the New Testament, this volume presents sixteen new studies that bear important implications for textual criticism, New Testament interpretation, and understanding the formative impact of the New Testament text on Early Christianity.
ISBN 1-59333-367-6, Hardback, $75

The Letters of John of Dalyatha By Mary Hansbury
John of Dalyatha outlines the itinerary of those who are baptized: purification, sanctification through silence, tears, wonder, divine light; union through contemplation, praise, assistance of the angels- leading to the vision of God.
ISBN 1-59333-341-2, Paperback, $38

Bible, Map and Spade By Rachel Hallote
This volume resurrects the forgotten history of early American involvement in biblical archaeology. Frederick Jones Bliss, an American from a prominent missionary family, is central to the story, as Bliss was the first of any nationality to scientifically excavate the tells of Palestine.
ISBN 1-59333-347-1, Hardback, $75

Introduction to the Grammar of Hebrew Poetry in Byzantine Palestine By Michael Rand
This book investigates the interaction between grammatical norms and poetic technique on the basis of a corpus selected from the oeuvre of the payyetan Eleazar be-rabbi Qillir. As a basis for this investigation, a descriptive/comparative analysis of the Qillirian dialect is offered.
ISBN 1-59333-348-X, Hardback, $75

`Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo (Bunches of Grapes from the Syriac Vineyard) - A Syriac Chrestomathy By Martin Zammit
This Chrestomathy includes selections from the best known Syriac authors as well as less familiar ones. Apart from short biographical introductions, the book includes grammatical annotations, and Syriac-English, English-Syriac glossaries. This publication is most welcome since the chrestomathies of the twentieth century have long been out of print.
ISBN 1-59333-346-3, Hardback, $65

Authority Within the Christian Church By Peter Lee
At this time, when authority for the church's beliefs and actions is the subject of much discussion, this book attempts to look to the authority of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, and how these are transmitted, including the roles of reason and the church.
ISBN 1-59333-342-0, Hardback, $75

American Orthodoxy and Parish Congregationalism By Nicholas Ferencz
The Orthodox Church has doctrinally and historically required all church authority to be exercised primarily by the hierarchy. In America, however, the laity alone usually exercise authority over parish property. This book explores this anomaly and how it happened.
ISBN 1-59333-195-9, Hardback, $75

Man and the Theogony in the Lurianic Cabala By Daphne Freedman
Lurianic mythology represents an intensely personal view, in which earlier cabalistic symbolism is used to express new and original ideas. The lurianic corpus can be seen as a metaphor for a relation between man and the deity which is not yet fulfilled.
ISBN 1-59333-200-9, Hardback, $75

Maureen Beyer Moser deserves to be recognized as a leading expert on Origen's Commentary on Romans, which is generally regarded as his most neglected writing... The topic is limited, the method clearly defined, and contemporary relevance is articulated.
... Moser provides her own translations of lengthy passages from Origen's Commentary. These are so elegant that I suspect that if the great Hammond Bammel had lived to complete her own proposed English translation, the whole thing would have read like these polished selections by Moser.

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Corey and Gorgias President George Kiraz first met at a small conference held at Rutgers Universtiy in 2002. From then on, Corey continued to support our publications with his enthusiasm and advice and continues to spread the word about Gorgias Press. Brennan received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990, and subsequently taught at Bryn Mawr College (1990-2000), and currently holds the position of Chair of Classics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He has been a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1987/1988), and a Member in the Institute for Advanced Study (spring 1998). He is spending 2005/6 as a visiting fellow in the Princeton Univ. Dept. of Classics, where he is working on a prosopography of elite Roman women of the Republic. He has authored The Praetorship in the Roman Republic (2 vols., Oxford Univ. Press 2000) and serves as the editor of the American Journal of Ancient History.

When asked to comment on the Gorgias publications, Corey with his usual enthusiam said:

"I bet all Gorgiasians have had this experience: you check into the Press’s website after a few weeks’ absence and you find that George Kiraz and Christine Altinis-Kiraz have since expanded their already massive but engagingly cohesive booklist by 15 percent. I don’t know of any humanistic enterprise that generates the same sense of downright exuberance as Gorgias. Of course always popping up are the striking reprints of inaccessible rarities—for instance, five separate sumptuous nineteenth century titles by Layard of Nineveh—as well as vital current scholarship by world-class authorities such as Sebastian Brock (Syriac) and Patricia Crone (Islamic studies). But on top of that there is Gorgias’s steady stream of adventure picks—a well-chosen line of Syriac books for children (one by George Kiraz himself), an impressively expanding list in Greek and Latin classics and travel literature, always some intriguing Mesopotamian artifact in faithful reproduction—which is making the Press stand out from its peers in ancient studies. With its enlightened disregard of conventional temporal and geographical divisions of Mediterranean and Near Eastern “antiquity”, and its distinctive and dazzling array of products, I dare say that Gorgias Press has evolved into something akin to a lifestyle brand!"

Gorgias Press was present at the first Common Ground Conference held at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ. The conference organizer Dr. Susan Graham of the Theology department at St. Peter's brought together five panelists who through their research and discussions explored traditions shared among the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam basing their papers on two common focal points: pilgramage and Jerusalem. "This is an important time for a conference that addresses these three monotheistic traditions," Dr. Graham said. "Their holy places and the desire of the faithful to visit them, just at a point when the Holy Land and the Holy Cities of Jerusalem and Mecca are subject to so many political claims and tensions." Gorgias Press will be publishing the proceedings of this unique conference.

The American Oriental Society Conference
Gorgias Press was represented at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society in Seattle, Washington, by Production Editor Peter T. Daniels. Peter presented a paper on the history of linguistics, in the opening session, devoted to Semitic linguistics, comparing the two versions of Noam Chomsky's Master's thesis, "The Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew," from 1951 and 1979.

As is usually the case when Gorgias has a display at a scholarly meeting, all books were sold at a 30% discount. The best seller turned out to be the 2005 [1974] reprint of Monroes's Hispano-Arabic Poetry. Of the five Sections of the Society, that devoted to the Islamic Near East was the best represented. We also greeted Gorgias author Jorunn J. Buckley, professor at Bowdoin College, whose Great Stem of Souls, the long-awaited and fascinating study of the colophons of Mandaean manuscripts, has just been published.

There are even plans under discussion to begin yet another Gorgias series, representing another of the AOS's areas of interest -- but it's too soon to divulge more than this hint!

There wasn't much time at the meeting for sightseeing, but the Seattle Public Library's new home, a spectacular glass polyhedron designed by architectural theorist Rem Koolhaas, deserves a visit. The famous monorail that leads to the Space Needle is still out of commission, but the food court at its downtown terminus provides a world-ranging array of inexpensive lunchtime treats, with hardly a national chain outlet in sight. The Society's reception was held at the Seattle East Asian Museum, an hilltop Art Deco palace with a spectacular view of the Space Needle and the mountains in the distance, and the Sunday night presidential address by Patrick Olivelle, representing the South and Southeast Asia Section, was remarkable for both its content and for being, at just 18 minutes, the shortest one on record!